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According to one Quora answer [1], 10% of Italians have naturally blond hair and 30% of them have blue eyes. I don't see why Italians at that time should look m

• bmn__ 6y ago
  Because it's historically ignorant? IANA ethnographer, but I expect that until the collapse of antiquity/migration period, only a vanishingly small part of the population did not share the most prevalent phænotype (dark hair etc.) in the cis-alpine part of the peninsula. I distinctly remember from school that blonde natural hair wigs were a prized possession among Latin female nobility because it was so rare to see and so difficult to obtain because of distance.
• jaclaz 6y ago
  Maybe because in the several centuries in between some exchanges (mixed marriages) with the rest of Europe, including the northern countries where blue eyes and blond hair is more common took place?
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